Just because there's something rare and used for medicinal purposes doesn't mean the Chinese have hunted it to extinction. RTFA please, it has plenty of examples of how europeans inflate the prices of these tusks and are used to cure scurvy and everything else you can think of. I only hope it can cure foolishness like yours.
Every culture has its aphrodisiacs, so don't go around insulting "everyone in China" especially when TFA has nothing to do with Chinese people.
In Communist Russia, Magnet Comes to you!
but seriously, maybe this is caused by/is causing the giant tsunami and big storms and everything. Geologically it all sounds "normal", but we're talking a thousand years here. Us puny mortals think 50 years is a really big deal...
the first question had a small chance of being answered, but it was a simple "yes" "no" question. Hardly worth making into the top ten, I think.
The second question is totally loaded and booby trapped and just sounds really biased to begin with...Be a little craftier:
What was the methodology you employed in order "to eliminate subjective bias on the part of both experimental subjects and the experimenters", considering that the research topic and no doubt the research findings are directly linked to your research's sponsor.
I think asking "how" is better than asking "eh?". quote stolen from wikipedia's entry on Double Blind.
Yup, 20% time. If you think about it, that's every Friday or everyone Monday if you want it to be.
In addition to "time" given on your pet project, Google staff will also get to use Google's servers and database of wealth and other google goodies to AID their pet projects. And if it sounds sufficiently cool enough, you can get your co-workers to user their 20% time on it. So essentially you can have a full-time team you know and trust, using Google Goodies to do something you think is awesome fun.
;_; I want to work for google one day. Hopefully they'll still be the kindly giant that they are now...
stop 5 minutes and take a look at Bill Gates 60.000+ SqFt house outside Seattle
Wow, real estate prices have REALLY soared in Seattle, haven't they? Tsk tsk tsk, poor multi-million bastard, should just come up to Canada where land is so cheap it's a steal. (Um, from the natives....)
Any theoretical benefit to understocking is surely not as big a benefit as trying to make sure as many people as possible who want 360s will be able to get them. The more sold, the more games and accessories sold, the quicker the installed base increases, and the better the head start over the PS3.
Red Fleyer is right, y'know. The principles of supply -vs- demand will tell us that if you mark something a "Rare!" people will want to pay more for it. Example: not everyone who wants a couple thousand shares of Google will be able to afford them. it's not an attack so much as an observation on how the "free market" operates.
especially if you want to stay up all night debugging...uh, I mean coding.
Ah, Slashdot, the only place where people back-track what they claim to "stay up all night" doing with something like, "coding" and not "having hot crazy ferret frenzy like sex"
But....I should stop hanging out around here and get back to coding...*sobs*
= He killed Fenchurch......sure she was getting in the way of adventures, as most happen-ending significant other/soulmates tend to do, but awww......Yeah it was really sad and completely different from the "See you, Space Cowboys!" happy slapstick that was in the first 2 books. I hear the audio version has some different plot lines and such?
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Why was parent modded +1 for funny? He's making a perfectly sane and serious point here.
Look, we all know that Disney is the big I Am with regards to small children oriented, family type dealies. We all know what Disney feature film humour is like: veiled sexual innuendos for the adults that will fly over the kids' heads that are strange and forced and inappropriate in the film.
Disney is only aimed at making money off merchandise and rides. So their films, the cheesier, the most bland and lowest denominator of family entertainment the better
Pixar actually tries to story tell, develop characters that grow, that have depth, that doesn't necessarily have to adapt to gener/species sterotypes. It's not the medium, it's the company environment that allow these story to grow that makes Pixar a hit.
If Jobs is what everyone thinks he's like, where he just let the art guys do the art and he'll do the business, that's good. But what makes anyone think Disney will let Pixar have the same artistic freedom?
The market research guys alone will be enough to drown out any good ideas from the get-go if Disney were in charge
I've been in and out of Hong Kong and China all my life, and the treatment i get from visiting/leaving the states is by far always the worse off. Government officials in China give you an awful lot of freedom provided that it doesn't "annoy" them. Yea, so none of that "we can have guns and can hug Falun Gong" stuff, but if you're being outrageous they really don't care.
At least when I visit China I don't get body searched and the locks on my luggage don't get intentionally destroyed and it doesn't take hours and I don't get barked at and asked sharp questions.
this train thing sounds like it will be an awesome opportunity for tourism in China, and the fact that they are willing to spend so much money and 4 years on this, while they still have the Space program and the Three Gorges Dam and whatnot.
hmmmm they can always have "porta-potty" type things. =P basically a box for all your shit*. If the cabin is presurrized, then the box can be a sealed unit that's pressurized about the same. Stuff goes in, stuff gets locked up until everything gets back to normal pressure, and then stuff gets thrown away.
At least I'd LIKE for that to be in place rather than literally hole in the ground. Those things are scary >..>
I'm going to find a buck on the ground tomorrow, and I'm going to declare that it was money back from samsung! Especially because I haven't actually bought anything from Samsung lately!
are they planning on refunding each consumer of said chips a quarter each or something? or does it just mean Samsung loses money to greedy lawyers, so for the next 6 quarters Samsung will drive up the prices of the new chips (logally, maybel) to make up for it?
I had half my schooling done in Hong Kong and half done in here. That's certainly something negative about our culture, how nerds are perceived.
When I was in HK, sure the pretty people are popular, but the smart people get praised by everyone and they know for a fact that the pretty but dumb people will not get further in life because after high school, the smart people will be the ones with jobs, and good jobs at that.
Over here, the pretty people go on to MTV contests and reality shows and become bajillionaires or something. At least they have girlfriends or something. Meanwhile I'm getting paid less than the grocery boy at superstore because he's joined a worker's union. *grumbles*
It's tempting to blame all our problems on a group, especially if that group happens to be loud, is actually quite small, and on the extreme end of things.
Like someone else has pointed out, if the grandparent wanted to blame things on a extremist religious sect, we could always blame the Native Americans for taking up money and grants and land space and "bloody hippies" for wanting to forsake all technology and progress, and "bloody commies" for giving out pensions and loss-of-job insurance and whatnot
At the end of the day, these small angry loud voices are not ruling the country. Ask yourselves honestly: do we see people being ridiculed for having religious beliefs, or more often see religious people ridiculing science in a public primary/secondary/post-sec school ?
If the grandparent can stop being paranoid and silly for a minute and go talk to people who teach and/or do science for a living, they will find that many of them will have religious beliefs of some sort.
Stop making excuses and face it, there is only one reason why we aren't doing better in science : Science doesn't pay.
Sir, how do you make sense of the diagram you linked to? I see orange and black patterns like the ones on origami paper. '-' is there an article that goes along with the image?
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Hmmm gonna be slightly off topic now:
Given the choice (or lack thereof), would you rather have all your teeth, both eyes, or your penis ripped out of your body? Just curious.
That's probably what's happening to the these poor creatures all the time because they can be legally hunted i think =Just because there's something rare and used for medicinal purposes doesn't mean the Chinese have hunted it to extinction. RTFA please, it has plenty of examples of how europeans inflate the prices of these tusks and are used to cure scurvy and everything else you can think of. I only hope it can cure foolishness like yours.
Every culture has its aphrodisiacs, so don't go around insulting "everyone in China" especially when TFA has nothing to do with Chinese people.
is that a Narwahl in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?
Is that a narwhal under your shirt or just your pathetic fat gut?
=D sorry, as a chick I had to throw in a 'shot down insult' to balance out the bad pick up line.
Ouch, she kicked 'im right in the tusks, the poor sod.
Maybe this is where the two males gently rub tusks together part comes in 8D
*sniggers*
In Communist Russia, Magnet Comes to you! but seriously, maybe this is caused by/is causing the giant tsunami and big storms and everything. Geologically it all sounds "normal", but we're talking a thousand years here. Us puny mortals think 50 years is a really big deal...
jolly good. crumpets?
the first question had a small chance of being answered, but it was a simple "yes" "no" question. Hardly worth making into the top ten, I think.
The second question is totally loaded and booby trapped and just sounds really biased to begin with...Be a little craftier:
What was the methodology you employed in order "to eliminate subjective bias on the part of both experimental subjects and the experimenters", considering that the research topic and no doubt the research findings are directly linked to your research's sponsor.
I think asking "how" is better than asking "eh?". quote stolen from wikipedia's entry on Double Blind.
Sir, with all due respect, you are under the illusion that because they are small and Japanese electronics, they are also cheap.
Am i the only one who thought of the Fruit Fucker 2000 when I heard this news?
Poor little guy....All he wanted was to "sample" the asteroid a bit...
Yup, 20% time. If you think about it, that's every Friday or everyone Monday if you want it to be.
In addition to "time" given on your pet project, Google staff will also get to use Google's servers and database of wealth and other google goodies to AID their pet projects. And if it sounds sufficiently cool enough, you can get your co-workers to user their 20% time on it. So essentially you can have a full-time team you know and trust, using Google Goodies to do something you think is awesome fun.
;_; I want to work for google one day. Hopefully they'll still be the kindly giant that they are now...
stop 5 minutes and take a look at Bill Gates 60.000+ SqFt house outside Seattle
Wow, real estate prices have REALLY soared in Seattle, haven't they? Tsk tsk tsk, poor multi-million bastard, should just come up to Canada where land is so cheap it's a steal. (Um, from the natives....)
Any theoretical benefit to understocking is surely not as big a benefit as trying to make sure as many people as possible who want 360s will be able to get them. The more sold, the more games and accessories sold, the quicker the installed base increases, and the better the head start over the PS3.
Red Fleyer is right, y'know. The principles of supply -vs- demand will tell us that if you mark something a "Rare!" people will want to pay more for it. Example: not everyone who wants a couple thousand shares of Google will be able to afford them. it's not an attack so much as an observation on how the "free market" operates.
especially if you want to stay up all night debugging...uh, I mean coding.
Ah, Slashdot, the only place where people back-track what they claim to "stay up all night" doing with something like, "coding" and not "having hot crazy ferret frenzy like sex"
But....I should stop hanging out around here and get back to coding...*sobs*
= He killed Fenchurch......sure she was getting in the way of adventures, as most happen-ending significant other/soulmates tend to do, but awww......Yeah it was really sad and completely different from the "See you, Space Cowboys!" happy slapstick that was in the first 2 books. I hear the audio version has some different plot lines and such?
Why was parent modded +1 for funny? He's making a perfectly sane and serious point here.
Look, we all know that Disney is the big I Am with regards to small children oriented, family type dealies. We all know what Disney feature film humour is like: veiled sexual innuendos for the adults that will fly over the kids' heads that are strange and forced and inappropriate in the film.
Disney is only aimed at making money off merchandise and rides. So their films, the cheesier, the most bland and lowest denominator of family entertainment the better
Pixar actually tries to story tell, develop characters that grow, that have depth, that doesn't necessarily have to adapt to gener/species sterotypes. It's not the medium, it's the company environment that allow these story to grow that makes Pixar a hit.
If Jobs is what everyone thinks he's like, where he just let the art guys do the art and he'll do the business, that's good. But what makes anyone think Disney will let Pixar have the same artistic freedom?
The market research guys alone will be enough to drown out any good ideas from the get-go if Disney were in charge
EW.....
so that must be that "Stiff Upper Lip" I keep hearing about
I've been in and out of Hong Kong and China all my life, and the treatment i get from visiting/leaving the states is by far always the worse off. Government officials in China give you an awful lot of freedom provided that it doesn't "annoy" them. Yea, so none of that "we can have guns and can hug Falun Gong" stuff, but if you're being outrageous they really don't care.
At least when I visit China I don't get body searched and the locks on my luggage don't get intentionally destroyed and it doesn't take hours and I don't get barked at and asked sharp questions.
this train thing sounds like it will be an awesome opportunity for tourism in China, and the fact that they are willing to spend so much money and 4 years on this, while they still have the Space program and the Three Gorges Dam and whatnot.
Kudos!
hmmmm they can always have "porta-potty" type things. =P basically a box for all your shit*. If the cabin is presurrized, then the box can be a sealed unit that's pressurized about the same. Stuff goes in, stuff gets locked up until everything gets back to normal pressure, and then stuff gets thrown away.
At least I'd LIKE for that to be in place rather than literally hole in the ground. Those things are scary >..>
(....erh, t'was not intended, sorry)
Free Tibet!
Sweet! I'll take two!
at least all you lost was money, right?
RIGHT???!!!
What makes you think you're going to get a buck?
Boo on reality! >..>
I'm going to find a buck on the ground tomorrow, and I'm going to declare that it was money back from samsung! Especially because I haven't actually bought anything from Samsung lately!
Exactly.
are they planning on refunding each consumer of said chips a quarter each or something? or does it just mean Samsung loses money to greedy lawyers, so for the next 6 quarters Samsung will drive up the prices of the new chips (logally, maybel) to make up for it?
I had half my schooling done in Hong Kong and half done in here. That's certainly something negative about our culture, how nerds are perceived.
When I was in HK, sure the pretty people are popular, but the smart people get praised by everyone and they know for a fact that the pretty but dumb people will not get further in life because after high school, the smart people will be the ones with jobs, and good jobs at that.
Over here, the pretty people go on to MTV contests and reality shows and become bajillionaires or something. At least they have girlfriends or something. Meanwhile I'm getting paid less than the grocery boy at superstore because he's joined a worker's union. *grumbles*
please mod parent up.
It's tempting to blame all our problems on a group, especially if that group happens to be loud, is actually quite small, and on the extreme end of things.
Like someone else has pointed out, if the grandparent wanted to blame things on a extremist religious sect, we could always blame the Native Americans for taking up money and grants and land space and "bloody hippies" for wanting to forsake all technology and progress, and "bloody commies" for giving out pensions and loss-of-job insurance and whatnot
At the end of the day, these small angry loud voices are not ruling the country. Ask yourselves honestly: do we see people being ridiculed for having religious beliefs, or more often see religious people ridiculing science in a public primary/secondary/post-sec school ?
If the grandparent can stop being paranoid and silly for a minute and go talk to people who teach and/or do science for a living, they will find that many of them will have religious beliefs of some sort.
Stop making excuses and face it, there is only one reason why we aren't doing better in science : Science doesn't pay.
Sir, how do you make sense of the diagram you linked to? I see orange and black patterns like the ones on origami paper. '-' is there an article that goes along with the image?